Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

Breathe deeply and remember to love.

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

Every human, is capable of animalistic behavior. But for God, human abode will be a wild desert with untamed animals

I’m not in the torturing business, but I am in the monster-killing business.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

Doctors?" said Ron, looking startled. "Those Muggle nutters that cut people up?

Randy and I were goggle-eyed as we gazed over the wonders of what Walt Disney had wrought. It was a magnificent demonstration of what God could do if He had more imagination.

All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

When intention is supported by effort, success follows.

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.